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Elżbieta Jastrzębowska

Maxentius: the Last or the First Author

of Late Antique Roman Architecture

Summary

Maxentius (306-312), a great builder of Rome in a short time, was a founder of the most important and the biggest buildings in the centre of the city: the tempie of Venus and Rome as well as Basilica Nova, which shows an innovative concept of realization of this type of a public building. This concept was adopted and also changed by Constantine. Maxentius, for his private use, erected on via Appia a pałace, together with a circus and a mausoleum. Opposite this complex he built Basilica Apostolorum for Christians, the oldest cemetery church in Rome, which was completed later. Thus, Constantine not only adopted Maxentius· new architectonic solutions but additionally, he made an effort to be remembered by the descendants as their inventor.